Morning Links: Phyllida Barlow’s Rise to Fame Edition

Phyllida Barlow, who is representing Great Britain this year at the Biennale, outside her pavilion.

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Around the Venice Biennale

Before you see Phyllida Barlow’s British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, read up on the 73-year-old artist’s fascinating career. A fun fact: Barlow is distantly related to Charles Darwin and Queen Victoria’s physician. [The Guardian]

One of the works in Damien Hirst’s Palazzo Grassi show is a near-copy of a 14th-century Nigerian sculpture, but no context is given. Is this a problem? One artist thinks so. [The Huffington Post]

McArthur Binion, Rachel Rose, and more artists share their favorite works so far at the Venice Biennale. [Artforum]

Contemporary Art for Canines

Dogumenta, an exhibition for canines, will launch as a satellite of sorts to the European quinquennial this August. [W]
Fresh Talent

Tina Rivers Ryan will be the Albright-Knox Art Gallery’s first assistant curator. [Artforum]

Agnès Varda is now on Instagram. Follow her for updates on her forthcoming film about the street artist JR. [Instagram]

A Christie’s Move

Loic Gouzer, the art specialist with a lively Instagram account, is now the co-chairman of Christie’s Americas postwar and contemporary department. He and Alex Rotter, equals after Gouzer’s title change, fill a void left behind by Brett Gorvy. [The Art Newspaper]

Extras

Currently on view at New York’s Jewish Museum is “The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin,” which ponders the German philosopher’s impact on 20th- and 21st-century artists. [The New Yorker]